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...name. The springs (120° F) still gush a quarter of a million gallons a day as they did for the Romans, and for Richard ("Beau") Nash who came to Bath in 1705 and inspired the construction of its great Palladian crescents and squares of honeygold sandstone. Richard Brindsley Sheridan eloped from 11 Royal Crescent with Elizabeth Linley, whose family later employed a servant girl who was to become the scandalous Lady Hamilton, Horatio Nelson's lover; he lived here...
...festivity that resulted eventually had a Winter Carnival Queen. The title and the role went out of style in the early '70s. Now the queen is celebrated only in a wonderfully awful 1939 Ann Sheridan movie that plays to packed houses at carnival time so liberated students can hoot at chaste girls "just dying to get pinned...
Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...
Leslie said that Jennie's niece, Clare Sheridan, who was Winston Churchill's only female cousin, was able to "battle out of the same world that held Jennie in its clutches." A sculptress and journalist who journeyed to Moscow and lived in the Kremlin during the Russian Revolution, Clare "was the first great romantic career women...
Though the plot is fairly standard stuff--a dash of Moliere, add Congreve and Sheridan to taste--Wycherly's potent satire makes this play rather interesting. Even now, the crudeness with which Wycherly has Horner deflate all the talk of honor and the false morality tossed off pro forma by the other characters is a bit shocking, and in 1675 it must have been downright obscene. Through Horner, Wycherly punctures the veneer of London society and shows that the underlying motivations of all these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide...